John Shoptaw

I'm a Bay Area poet and teacher (UC Berkeley). Near-Earth Object, poems (Unbound Edition Press, 2024), with a Foreword by Jenny Odell in Paris Review Reviews.

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@EmEsfahaniSmith I read your article on Middlemarch and the socially mediated young. Do you know this adaptation? https://t.co/0gnXXcRNHe

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From Dickinson on her birthday:

Partake as doth the Bee -
Abstemiously -
A Rose is an Estate
In Sicily -

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Thrilled to announce John Shoptaw as poetry winner, 35th Annual Northern California Book Awards, for TIMES BEACH.

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@UNDPress Thank you for making Times Beach into the book of my dreams!

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@poetshelley Thanks Shelley, poetry dynamo!

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Times Beach won the Northern California Book Award in poetry. I'm overwhelmed, flooded.
flooded: https://t.co/5qFGfRfMfi

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@sberatlis Sorry I didn't meet you yesterday at the NCBA party. I'm looking forward to reading your book Alkali Sink. John

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Times Beach is a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. Somebody help me off the floor.
https://t.co/Cx5fhR20wB

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I'm primed for Ecopoetics poet Julia Fiedorczuk, reading at UC Berkeley with her women Polish poet peers: https://t.co/41acd8TLkb

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@ford_stephanie @PoetryFound Thanks Stephanie! I was worried that people would balk when I turned from environmental to environmentalist.

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@ford_stephanie Hi Stephanie, I wonder if you might be interested in my essay "Why Ecopoetry?" Here's hoping! https://t.co/Bn9UqMbL9e

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@ecopoetics Hi Jonathan, I wanted to share "Why Ecopoetry?" with you, an outgrowth of the Berkeley conference: https://t.co/Bn9UqLUahG

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@MarvEssays Glad you liked it! @JohnShoptaw

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For poets who want to learn from naturalists, here's an Interesting looking book by David Lukas: https://t.co/okm2aZlIDs

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@shelmaclaren Thanks Michelle! I'm heartened that you appreciated the distinction, which is easier said than done.

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Grieving tonight for C.D. Wright. From her last missive to me: I've got news for you, your twang is intact. Today is all mine. Ever, C.D.

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My essay "Why Ecopoetry" is out for your reading pleasure
@PoetryFound <https://t.co/4lpxUqS0sT>

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"This is not to say that ecopoetry is merely nature served uncooked on the literal page."
– @JohnShoptaw https://t.co/FkLxoyThuI

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My reading from 'Times Beach' for Lunch Poems, Robert Hass's series at UC Berkeley, is now on Youtube <https://t.co/gSw2J4Z84e>

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@SierraRise Pangolins are being skinned into extincition for its scales by so-called Traditional Chinese Medicine (codified by Mao in 1950).